Christian Fantasy: From 1200 to the PresentThis is the first account of invented stories involving the Christian supernatural. In their development a central concern is found to be the fantasy-making human imagination itself, at first seen as a obstacle to Christian purpose, but more recently given freer rein. |
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... patterns , or textual reference . They are all of them voyagers . As if in keeping with this , many of their works are founded on journeys - whether in quest of the Holy Grail , in search of other worlds in Dante , Pearl or C. S. Lewis ...
... patterns , or textual reference . They are all of them voyagers . As if in keeping with this , many of their works are founded on journeys - whether in quest of the Holy Grail , in search of other worlds in Dante , Pearl or C. S. Lewis ...
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... patterns , with Galahad ( ' Gilead ' ) as a Christ figure who mediates a transition from the spiritual condition of man under the Old Law to that of the Gospels and the New . Our concern is most directly with his attitude to fantasy ...
... patterns , with Galahad ( ' Gilead ' ) as a Christ figure who mediates a transition from the spiritual condition of man under the Old Law to that of the Gospels and the New . Our concern is most directly with his attitude to fantasy ...
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... patterns of salvation : it is , as it were , inverted typology . The obvious effect of this is that the sequence of events is continually being checked while a hermit or passing good knight goes over recent happenings to explain their ...
... patterns of salvation : it is , as it were , inverted typology . The obvious effect of this is that the sequence of events is continually being checked while a hermit or passing good knight goes over recent happenings to explain their ...
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... patterns which the spiritually sophisticated reader is left to perceive . Such are the Grail as a symbol of divine grace ; Lancelot as Adam , and Galahad as the risen Christ ; and the whole quest as a journey from the Old Law to the New ...
... patterns which the spiritually sophisticated reader is left to perceive . Such are the Grail as a symbol of divine grace ; Lancelot as Adam , and Galahad as the risen Christ ; and the whole quest as a journey from the Old Law to the New ...
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... poem that we will not be seduced by them , but will constantly see their spiritual significance or the larger pattern to which they belong Iand this without direct - authorial pointing . But in doing so , as we 26 Christian Fantasy.
... poem that we will not be seduced by them , but will constantly see their spiritual significance or the larger pattern to which they belong Iand this without direct - authorial pointing . But in doing so , as we 26 Christian Fantasy.
Contents
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The Middle English Pearl | 42 |
The Faerie Queene Book I | 50 |
Dr Faustus | 73 |
The Metaphysical Poets | 94 |
42 | 107 |
The Pilgrims Progress | 115 |
Heaven and Hell | 131 |
The Little Black Boy and The Marriage | 144 |
Modern Christian Fantasy | 156 |
George MacDonalds Fairy Tales | 164 |
The WaterBabies | 330 |
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allegory angels Anodos Beatrice become Bible biblical Blake Bunyan C. S. Lewis Cambridge century character Charles Williams Christ Christian fantasy Church Commedia creation Dante Dante's death described desire devil divine dragon Duessa earth eternal evil fact Faerie Queene Fairy Land faith fantastic worlds Faustus Faustus's feel figure further George MacDonald God's Grail Heaven and Hell Holy human idea imagery imagination invented J. R. R. Tolkien journey Kingsley Kingsley's lady Lewis's Lilith Lion literary literature London Manlove Medieval Mephostophilis Milton mind Modern Fantasy moral mystic myth narrative nature North Wind novel Paradise Lost pattern Pearl Perelandra Phantastes picture Pilgrim's Progress planet play poem poet portrays Princess and Curdie Purgatory realise reality Redcrosse Satan science fiction seems seen sense Shardik significance soul Spenser spiritual story supernatural Swedenborg Tamburlaine tells theology things Tolkien true truth University Press Victorian vision Water-Babies whole writers